Trick Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

Nature, Words, Become

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Simple, Pretty

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury

Beautiful, Knowing, Ourselves

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

Life, Thought, Whole

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

Government, Working, Whole

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Simple, Find

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Dirty, Achieve

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson

Marriage, Find, Old

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller

Pain, Her, Left

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Robert Mitchum

Trying, Stop, Pleasing

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
Mason Cooley

Ask, Magic, Promises

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everything, Big, Picture

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Time, Political

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk

Future, Long, Happen

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

Mind, Him, Goal

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Faith, Writing, Act

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

Work, Happy, Same

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Paula Deen

Work, Hard, Living

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Doug Coupland

Question, Animal, Asked

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartney

Together, Two, Loved

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina Aguilera

Success, Try, Advantage

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges

Real, Light, Off

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Lee Iacocca

Waiting, Die, Sure

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGill

Nature, Best, Human

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'
Bill Maher

After, Same, Said

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger

Down, Through, Aim

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
David Cone

Great, Hurt, Yourself

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